# Cubbit review (2026): is the free plan enough? > EU-based S3-compatible object storage, hosted or self-built Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Cubbit sells S3-compatible object storage in two forms: DS3 Cloud, a hosted service in EU and UK data centers, and DS3 Composer, software for building your own storage on your own or rented hardware. Pricing is a flat per-terabyte rate with no egress or API charges. - **Category:** File Storage & Sync - **Made by:** Cubbit S.r.l. - **Website:** https://www.cubbit.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want an app to sync and share files, as it targets IT teams and developers. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Cubbit has a free plan, and paid plans start at €4.99 per TB / month (personal-use rate, 3 to 10 TB). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** DS3 Composer: up to 3 TB free. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Composer free tier | $0 | Up to 3 TB of DS3 Composer, the software-defined storage product. | | Composer personal use | €4.99 per TB / month, for 3 to 10 TB | Personal-use rate; no charges for egress, deletion, replication or API calls. | | DS3 Cloud | Custom | Hosted storage quoted through partners; a 30-day, 1 TB demo is offered. | Read from https://www.cubbit.io/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Cubbit before buying. ## Key features - **S3 compatibility:** Both products expose an S3-compatible API, so existing S3 tools and applications can point at it. - **DS3 Cloud:** A hosted object store in certified EU or UK data centers, with the region chosen by the customer. - **DS3 Composer:** Software to build your own storage on your own hardware, bare metal or public cloud, as SaaS or self-hosted. - **Flat per-terabyte rate:** The pricing page states no charges for egress, deletion, bucket replication or API calls. - **Geo-redundancy:** Data is replicated across sites; the vendor describes configurable durability such as 11 or 15 nines. ## Good for - Organizations that need data kept in the EU - Teams wanting S3 storage on hardware they choose - Backup and archive workloads sized in terabytes ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros and are read from the pricing page's FAQ; no price is published for DS3 Cloud. - Above 10 TB, pricing is a custom quote. - Composer nodes need a Linux machine with at least 1 vCore and 2 GB of RAM per drive. - It targets IT teams and developers rather than everyday file sharing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Cubbit sells S3-compatible object storage from a flat €4.99 a terabyte a month, with no charges for egress or API calls. The free 3 TB tier means running nodes yourself on Linux machines, and the hosted version is a quote. - **Value for money: C.** €4.99 a TB a month for 3 to 10 TB, which is cheap per terabyte, but the free and low rates are for Composer, where you run the nodes yourself. Hosted DS3 Cloud has no published price. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Composer is free up to 3 TB, but you need your own Linux machine for it. The hosted cloud gets a 30-day, 1 TB demo and no credit card is needed. - **Features: C.** S3 compatibility, geo-redundancy and a flat rate with no egress or API fees. It's an object store for IT teams, not a file sharing or sync tool. - **Ease of use: D.** Composer nodes need a Linux machine with at least 1 vCore and 2 GB of RAM per drive. No rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web console and an S3 API only. The listing names no integrations and no apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Cubbit's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among file storage and sync services - Cubbit's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 1 of the 45 other file storage and sync services we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 9 of 45) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $5.57 a month, against a middle price of $6.32 for the category: 14 of the 37 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 1.7 out of 4. 15 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/file-storage ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Cubbit does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 2 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 42 of the 45 other file storage and sync services grade higher. It costs $66.90 a year. - You could not: A file manager working directly on your disk. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Public API, Self-hostable, File management ## Alternatives - [Storj](https://toolgpa.com/tools/storj): Distributed S3-compatible object storage priced per terabyte. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cubbit-vs-storj) - [Backblaze B2](https://toolgpa.com/tools/backblaze-b2): S3-compatible object storage billed per terabyte. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-cubbit) - [Wasabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wasabi): S3-compatible cloud object storage at a flat per-TB rate. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cubbit-vs-wasabi) - [Filebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/filebase): S3-compatible object storage with IPFS pinning and free egress. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cubbit-vs-filebase) - [Nextcloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nextcloud): Open source, self-hosted file sync and collaboration platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cubbit-vs-nextcloud) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.cubbit.io/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/cubbit Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).